# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poetic Presence and Absence
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 05:15 pm – Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Humanities ColloquiumAbout this EventThis is a talk about poems and about ghosts and about poems by ghosts. It is also a talk about how poems make a particular claim to presence (consider here the heightened language of poetry, the making of occasion), and how poems are also artifacts of absence (what the poem seeks to restore or repair through the poetic act). At the heart of the talk will be a set of readings of classical Chinese poems attributed to ghosts, through which I will ask questions about what poems do that other literary modes cannot and attempt to show how the logic of the poem is the logic of haunting itself. The talk will begin with a literary historical framing of the phenomenon of ghost poetry in China, but the focus will be on the poem as a mediaform that allows the dead to be recorded and revived.Jack W. Chen is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Virginia, where he is also Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures. He is the author of two books and co-editor of three volumes, and has written on various topics such as emperors and poetry, social networks, gossip, topic modeling, and, mostly recently, ghosts and cats. He is working on a co-edited six-volume literary history of China and a new co-edited volume on “bad” reading. This talk is part of a new book project, Lyric Haunting: Ghosts, Poetry, Mediation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/philadelphia/poetic-presence-and-absence/100001758150749219
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Philadelphia
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Stiteler Hall
- **lat**: 39.9527411
- **long**: -75.1971733
- **full address**: Stiteler Hall, 208 S. 37th St, Philadelphia, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Poetic Presence and Absence being held?
  - **A:** Poetic Presence and Absence takes place on Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 05:15 pm to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm at Stiteler Hall, 208 S. 37th St, Philadelphia, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Poetic Presence and Absence?
  - **A:** Poetic Presence and Absence is organized by Center for East Asian Studies.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Poetic Presence and Absence is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Philadelphia, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Poetic Presence and Absence sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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